A sick Ohio lady who killed and ate a cat was hit with a one-year jail sentence on Monday as a livid choose slammed her for the repulsive stomach-turning act.
“To me, you present quite a danger to our community,” Stark County Widespread Pleas Choose Frank Forchione advised Allexis Ferrell, 27, the Massillon Unbiased reported.
“This is repulsive to me. I mean, that anyone would do this to an animal. And an animal’s like a child. I don’t know if you understand that or not,” the choose mentioned. “I can’t categorical the frustration, shock, disgust that this crime has delivered to me.
“I don’t know what could prompt anyone to want to eat a cat.”
He then sentenced Ferrell, who pleaded responsible to a felony cost of animal cruelty.
The case drew nationwide headlines in September, when information of the case unfold one month after Ferrell was busted — in the midst of the frenzy over a since-refuted declare by President-elect Donald Trump that Haitian immigrants in Springfield had been consuming native pets.
Officers mentioned Ferrell isn’t an immigrant and her case isn’t tied to that declare.
Disturbing police bodycam footage of the Aug. 16 incident reveals Ferrell on all fours open air consuming the cat as horrified neighbors appeared on and Canton cops arrived after getting a 911 name.
“What did you do?” one cop is heard asking. “Why did you kill the cat?”
In courtroom Monday, the choose referred to as Ferrell a nationwide embarrassment.
“You’ve embarrassed this county,” the choose mentioned. “You’ve embarrassed this nation. More importantly, you’ve embarrassed yourself.”
Stark County prosecutor Chelsea Small advised The Publish Monday that the one-year sentence for the cat-eating incident might be tacked on to a separate 18-month sentence Ferrell was hit with for 2 prior crimes — a 2019 theft case and a toddler endangerment case from final 12 months.
“It’s one of the most disturbing cases that I’ve seen as a prosecutor,” Small mentioned of the cat incident.
Protection lawyer Stephen Kandel advised the Massillon Unbiased that “it’s clear that [Ferrell] has an issue with drugs and alcohol, through her evaluation, through her past history.”
He mentioned he has organized for his consumer to bear inpatient remedy after her launch.
